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Playak News Flash - February 1, 2017
Playak News Flash - February 1, 2017
The world's latest paddling headlines.
Distressed Mullet Travelogue: The Eastern Seaboard from NYC to NC
Distressed Mullet - Paddling South from NYC Thought I could start to lay out what I know of other places in the North East besides New York City, although I could write about the NYC waters in depth, and I will once we get our paddles wet on a regular basis when spring comes around.
Distressed Mullet Dave Kalama Catches air SUP Foil Surfing
Distressed Mullet - We just saw this on Dave Kalama’s Instagram and had to share it right away. You can see him flying on a SUP foil surfing board and landing an air. We want to be Dave Kalama.
Canoe Guy BC Here is how a paddler promoted his book about restoring wood canvas canoes
Canoe Guy BC - About a year ago, when I was in the final stages of writing This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, I was also developing the marketing plan for the book. Many self-published authors want to get their book into as many retail outlets as possible. However, my book is written for a very focused niche audience. I nurtured my audience over a number of years through this blog. That said, I also hoped that my book would be available in one national retail chain.
SUP Magazine Tragic news of death of Pro SUP athlete Sophia Tiaré due to car accident
SUP Magazine - Tragedy struck over the weekend when 25-year-old Sophia Tiaré Bartlow—professional standup paddler, surfer and beloved member of the ocean sports community—passed away on Oahu’s North Shore after a car accident at around 10:15pm Saturday night. She was a talented standup paddle surfer ranked 12th on the 2015 Standup World Tour, grew up in Long Beach, California. She was widely known and loved across the standup paddling and surfing communities for her bright spirit, endless enthusiasm and contagious positivity.
Jackson Kayak 5 Rules For New Fishing Grounds
Jackson Kayak - Virginia was my home for 35 years and I exploited every fishing opportunity she had to offer. I had thousands of dollars invested in gear that caught fish in Virginia and thousands of hours of time invested on how to catch them – let alone the hundreds of connections and friends I made along the way.
SUP Magazine The SUP Lifestyle: Fernando Stalla
SUP Magazine - Fernando Stalla lifestyle is more on water than on land, he is paddling’s iconic male-model. He is good with SUP events as well being the winner of 2014’s Payette River Games. His physique is very interesting the long hair and good looks and body, that’s because he is a “ocean gypsy”, read about him in this article on SUP lifestyle where Fernando is the featured theme.
Dash Point Pirate Tacoma’s For-Profit Immigration Prison: The Northwest Detention Center
Dash Point Pirate - This video was shot at Solidarity Day organized by the Northwest Detention Center Resistance on Tacoma on January 7, 2017, with the help of Richard Lovering and photographer Katya Palladina.
GrindTV SUP athlete Sophia Tiare Bartlow dies in car crash
GrindTV - On Saturday according to a report by Hawaii News Now 25-year-old standup paddleboarding athlete Sophia Tiare Bartlow died in a car crash in the town of Waialua on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Hawaii News Now reports that Bartlow was the passenger in a truck being driven by her 35-year-old boyfriend, Sage Candelaria, The post SUP athlete Sophia Tiare Bartlow dies in car crash appeared first on GrindTV.com.
SUP International Loco in South West Portugal
SUP International - It must have been almost 20 years since I last visited Portugal and with a none paddle surfing better half I’d agreed to book somewhere in the South Algarve on a largely holiday basis with the caveat that I could take my board (just in case).
Jackson Kayak Mexican Whitewater – Top Destination for whitewater enthusiasts
Jackson Kayak - If you paddle any level of whitewater, you have already heard about the epic rivers in Mexico. In the last 10 years, I have returned ‘south of the border’ for the incredible river adventures, but also for a lot more than that.  Here are my top 5 reasons to kayak in Mexico.
Isle Surf and SUP 11 Fun Things to Do on a Paddle Board
Isle Surf and SUP - There is a boatload of fun things you can do on a standup paddle board (SUP). Besides the typical paddle board activities (paddling around the water, surfing, etc.), there are so many other creative ways you can use your SUP.
SUP International Board Tech- Short & Sweet
SUP International - For over a year now, the compact SUP shape has been in the market with nearly all brands offering a variation of the shaping concept that was pioneered in surfing, but has now established itself in SUP, kitesurfing and windsurfing.
Kayak Session A Toast To Our National Parks Turning 100 years
Kayak Session - The National Park Service turned 100 years old this year and it is time to raise a glass and toast these exemplary places, the rivers that flow through them, and the many fine people who take care of them. So grab your favorite beverage and let’s go!
ICF Highlights of Auckland 's Oceania canoe slalom where world’s best athletes competed
ICF - Here are the results with recaps of the women’s and men’s Oceania canoe slalom championships that took place at the Vector Wero Whitewater Park. In the women’s K-1 run it was Jess Fox who won despite her 2sec penalty in the K-1 finals. At the C-1 finals it was Great Britain’s Ryan Westley who won by 1 sec from second place winner Matej Benus. Westley had trained for this competition with Rio’s K1 gold medallist Joe Clarke.
SUPracer James Casey and Kelly Margetts Join Sunova as a New Race Team Is Born
SUPracer - Sunova has officially signed top international athletes James Casey and Kelly Margetts alongside designer Marcus Tardrew, with the Aussie trio helping establish a new race team and completing the new year's merry-go-round of leading athletes in the process.
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